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Bio

I am a Biological Engineering (BE, MIT Course XX) graduate student in the Alm lab (48-324). Our focus is on the evolution of microbial genomes, and I am specifically working on engineering genetic diversity and stress tolerance in Vibrio splendidus. I hope to determine what alleles and loci contribute to environmental stress tolerance and how experimental evolution and resequencing can reveal these.

Past life and credentials

My background is in mechanical engineering and design, but not of things quite as small as BioBricks.

OEB.192 Microbial Evolution with Chris Marx, a great subject that is not taught enough

directed evolution seminar

Past Projects

My first project at MIT was during the summer of 2005 when I tried the Orthogonal cloning of clpXP from E. coli into yeast. I was more successful at learning molecular biology techniques by making mistakes than at cloning into yeast. This work is continuing in someone else's more capable hands.